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E'. G. GALB. BEDSTEAD AND MATTRESS FRAME THEREPOR.

Patented July 6, 18917.

@m4/@WM IINTTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANCIS G. GALE, OF WATERVILLE, CANADA.

BEDSTEAD AND MATTRESS-FRAME THEAREFOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 585,666, dated July 6, 1897. Application filed August 24, 1894. Renewed December 10, 1896. Serial No. 615,230. (No model.)

T0 all whom, t may con/cern:

Be it known that I, FRANCIS G. G'ALE, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at Vaterville, Province of Quebec, Dominion of Canada, have invented an Improvement in Bedsteads and lrlattress-Frames Therefor, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specilication, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

necessary to construct the side rails of the bedstead from a material and of a size such as to sustain not only the weight of the mattress and its frame, but in addition thereto the weight of the person or persons resting upon the mattress.

Inasmuch as the four corner-posts must ultimately carry all the weight, it is desirable to so construct the bedstead and mattressframe as to throw the weight of the mattress and any weight on and sustained' by the latter as nearly as may be directly upon the said posts, in order to relieve the side and end rails from any weight to be sustained and to utilize the said end and side rails merely as connections to retain the bedstead in proper shape.

My invention therefore comprehends a bedstead comprising corner-posts, end and side rails joining the same, and mattress-frame supports at the opposite ends of said bedstead and adjacent and carried by said posts, in combination with a mattress-frame resting at its ends on and sustained by said supports, whereby the weight of the said frame and of a person or persons carried thereby is transferred directly to the said posts, thereby relieving said side and end rails from any weight to be sustained, as will be more fully hereinafter described.

Other features of my invention will be ing the corner-posts.

of sustaining the mattress at its ends upon f the mattress-frame supports and the cornerposts.

Referring to the drawings, in the preferred embodiment of my invention there shown, a a are corner-posts of suitable construction, provided, respectively, wi th mattress-frame su pports b b, integral with or suitably attached to the said posts.

In the present construction the supports b are provided with dovetail sockets to receive the correspondingly-shaped projections c on the blocks c at the opposite ends of the side rails c2 of the bedstead. These end blocks c may be integral with or independent of and suitably attached to the said side rails c2, and when in position with their projections locked in the sockets of the supports h the said blocks c in effect form parts of the said supports, their dovetail projections sustaining them independently of the side rails, so that the latter may serve principally or entirely as connections joining and separat- The posts a d are also joined by suitable end rails e.

As herein shown, and preferably, the side and end rails c2 and e are formed from L- shaped or angle irons, which provide the greatest stiffness coupled with eXtreme lightness.

The mattress-frame M, composed of side and end rails m and m', may be of suitable construction to fit and rest at its ends upon the supports b h of said frame,as herein shown, and preferably, having the ends of its side rails '1n cut away or recessed at m2 at their under sides to leave overhanging supportingears m3, which rest upon the supports h, as best shown in Figs. 2 and 3. j

A portion of a wire mattress n, of usual construction, is shown in Fig. 2, sustained at its ends upon the end rails of the mattressframe, so that any weight upon the mattress IOC is transferred to and carried by the mattressframe at its ends only, and as the ends of` the mattress-frame are sustained upon and by the supports b it will be seen that the said weight is at once again transferred. directly to the said supports and to the posts adjacent thereto, so that the side and end rails of the bedstead need sustain none of the Weight whatsoever, they being shown in the drawing as free from contact with the side rails of the mattress-frame.

By making the side and end railsvof the bedstead from angle-irons of suitable form, as shown in the drawings, the mattress-frame may be made to drop into the angle of the irons, so that the said angle-irons prevent lateral movement and displacement of the mattress-frame when in position.

I am aware that it is not new to construct a bedstead-frame from corner-posts connected by end and side rails off anglefiron and also' to connect the said rails with theirposts through the-medium of dovetail projections and recesses, and therefore I do.` not herein:

seek to claim such a `construction alone, but, so far as known to me, I am the first to conceive the idea of sustaining the mattress frame at its ends only upon supports carried by the corner-posts, independent of the side,

to keepy the bedsteady in proper shape with.

the posts separated.

As stated in this specification, my invention is particularly useful in connection with metallic bedsteads, for it is well known thatk such bedsteadsasat present constructed are expensive, so much solas to preclude their universal-use, and they are'also heavy.

By my invention the long side and end rails fmay be made considerably lighter, so that they are more easily transportable, and the cost of construction is also correspondingly reduced.

My. inventionis not necessarilyy limited toV the particular constructional .features shown.

AI claim- 1. A bedstead comprisingcorner-posts, end and side rails connecting the same, and mattress-frame-supports at the opposite ends of said bedstead adjacent and carried by the said posts, in combination with a removable rectangular mattress-frame resting atits ends upon said supports whereby the weight of said 1n attress-frame, together with any weight sustained thereby is transferred directly to -the said corner-posts to thereby relieve the said side and end bedstead-rails from said Aweight, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

2. A bedstead comprising corner-posts, and

end and side rails connecting the same, .mat-

`gtress-frame supportsv at opposite ends of the bedstead adjacent and carried by said posts,

lin combination'with a removable rectangular {mattress-frame resting atits ends on saidsupgports, a mattress supportedat its ends from land by the end rails of said mattress-frame, whereby the weight uponthe mattress is-taken by the ends of the mattress-frame and transiferred thereby through the said supports directly tothe said corner-posts,thereby relievlQing. the-side andy end bedstead-rails fromsaid weight, substantially as and for thepurpose specified. 4

3. A bedstead, comprising corner-posts, and

end and side rails connecting the same, mattress-frame supports at opposite ends of said posts, in combination withza mattress-frame composed of side and end rails,.the latter recessed at theiry underv sides at opposite ends upon and be sustained by said supports, wherebyy said side and end rails are relieved and the weight carried thereby, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FRANCIS G. GALE.

Witnesses:

OLIVIA S. GALE, H. T. McLoNG.

bedstead adjacent and carried( by the said to leave overhangingzsupportingfears torest.

from theweight of the said mattress-framek 

